The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-23
CATHOLIC oHURcH NOTES.
what is Going on In Catholic Circles
Throughout the state.


year 1886 were 81, 70) more than during the
year 1885.
Chatham, N. j., which has been hitherto
mi son attended from Summit, has been
made an independent parish, and Rev.
Father Null has been appointed rector
pro tenn.
Rev. Walter Purcell, for the past two
ye5rs second assistant at st. Michael's
Church, has been transferred to St. Column
ba's, Newark; and Rev. Father Sullivan, of
st. Jeseph's Baldwin Avenue, succeeds him
at st. Michaels.
Right Rev. Bishop Wigger was occupied
during the whole of last week in visiting
the chui ches in Paterson, beginning with
st. Jol MS on Sunday last. Very Rev.
Dean NcNu'ty, the great temperance advo-
sat is ,ector of this church.
Rev. Jerome Smith, until recently curate
1T St. Columbias Church, Newark, takes
Rev Father Whites place as curate at the
cathedral. Rev. Father Dnun, of Summit,
N. j., replaces Rev. Father Sullivan at st.
Joseph's, Baldwin avenue, jersey City
Heights. Rev. Father Smith, of the Ar.
lington Prots esory. goes to the Church of
the Assumption. Morristown, to assist Rev.
Father Fafrel during the absence of Very
y
Rev. Father McKeever. Secretary of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union, of New
Jersey, is meeting with great success in
aggregating to the Unions soci, ii 8 of boys
and young men between the ages of ~ and
20 years. He has already had affiliated
with the Union, st. James Society of st.
Aloysius, two divisions, 175 members; S..
Johns, Paterson, $50 members; and St.
Mary's, Hoboken, $50 members. Many of
the rectors of other churches have prom
ised to fern similar societi in their
larishes and to have them join the Union
The total receipts of st. Johns parish,
Jersey City Heights, during the year 1885,
we're $4,000 The Christmas collection
amounted to $780, Work on the fine new
brick school house in this parish has been
stopped by the severity of the weather. and
the building will probably not be ready for
school purposes before Nay l. St. Johns
is one of several new parishes formed in
Jersey City during the last few years. The
shove exhibit, however, shows its fairs to
be in very prosperous condition, notwith-
standing its comparatively recent establish
ment as parish. Rev. B. Fl. Ter Woert is
Inc rector.
On Monday the Bishop visited st. Jo-
seph's Church, of which Rev. DR.. Smith,
the well-known writer on Canon law, is
rector The foundations of a very large
new church are now being built in this
parish, and the corner stone will be laid
early in the spring. On Tuesday the Bishop
visited St. Agnes Church, Rev. Patrick
Downs, rector; on Thursday. st. Bonifaee
Rev. Eugene Dicowich, rector; and on FIJI
day and Saturday morning, st. Bouayent-
ures, in charge of the Franciscan Fathers.
Io1, Cd in
each of the above churches during his
visit.
Rev NJ j. White, who has been Just APP
pointed rector of the new parish formed
from portions of st. Patrick's, ST. Mlry's.
st. James and st. ,Columbia's parishes.
Newark has purchased property on Plane
street for new church, and hes intends to
begin work Immediately. The boundaries
of the parish are: on the east, the Penn
sylvania Railroad on the west, Broome
street; on the north, NJ lrket street, and on
the soutsss Kinney street. 1t has an esti-
mated Catholic population of 1900. Rev.
Father White is man of learning and
ability, and is one of the contributors to
the Irish Ecclesiastical Record. He will con-
tinue to reside for time at the Cathedral
Rectory.
Now is the season of hish festivity in ocial life
and he is lrgh in the ranks who is we'll dressed.
To make sure of style aud material 70 your
dress suits, GO to j. F. Weinmaun Il Son, Is Mont
gomery street.
For some time past some of the enclos-
ures around lots and plots in the Hudson
County Catholic Gem stery, on West Side
avenue, have been mutilated, the orna-
ments o1nting the pillars being bro
ken off. This has caused a great deal of
annoyance to the lot owners, and also to
the authorities of the cemetery. who seem
to be unable to discover the perpetrators
of the mischief. 1t is also source of con-
siderable loss to the cemetery management,
as they pay for repairing the damage done.
The trouble is believed by some to have its
origin in business rivalry, though if this be
the case those concerned in it act very
foolishly and frustr 4te their own designs,
as the dealer who erecS the work usually
gets the contract for making repairs.
Much regret is expressed by the people of
st. Joseph's and st. Michael's parishes at
the recent changes by which they lose the
services of their beloved curates, Rev.
Fathers Sullivan and Purcell. The health
of Rev Father Purcell, who goes to New
ark, ia not We y good. His gentle and re-
served manners, strict attention to duty,
and unostentatious pretty, made him gen.
eral favorite with the congregation of st.
Mlchaeps, by whom he will be very much
missed. His plaza, however, will be very
ably filed by Rev. Father Sullivan, who
will be just as much missed by the people
of St. Joseph's, by whom he was deservedly
esteemed and loved. He is said to be a
man of much ability, and an exceptio nably
eloquent and forcible speaker. =
The complimentary dinner to the Very
Rev. Dean Fitzsimmons, rector OF the
Church of the Immaculate Conception,
Camden, Nj, on Wednesday last, which
was rendered him by the clergy OF the Dio-
eese Of Trenton to mark their appreciation
of the honor conferred on him at the recent
Trenton Synod, was very enjoyable affair.